Author: Ann Gauger

Graceful girl walking with horse and holding reins in hand. Romantic equine and girls silhouette on horse hiking with red rising sun on horizon

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
December 5, 2022

Categorized
Intelligent Design

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Ann Gauger, biology, Catholic church, Catholic faith, Christianity, Darwinism, Eric Anderson, Evolution, Intelligent Design, MIT, Molecular Machines, Science and faith, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, The Sound of Music, the University of Washington, vocation, zoology}

Ann Gauger: A Scientist’s Circuitous Journey to Faith

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December 5, 2022

Intelligent Design}

On this ID the Future, host Eric Anderson sits down with biologist and intelligent design proponent Ann Gauger to hear her story of how she got into the intelligent design movement and how the evidence for design has shaped her life. It begins with a lonely girl on a Kansas military base who at one point loses her Christian faith but also discovers the wonders of nature, and friendship, when she is given a horse and begins taking it for long rides in the countryside. Her intellectual journey takes her to MIT, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the University of Washington, and eventually into the Catholic church, where she explores becoming a nun until a conversation with echoes from the Read More ›

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Ann Gauger

Date
February 24, 2020

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__edited, Materialism}

Honoring Phillip Johnson Pt. 4: Ann Gauger

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February 24, 2020}

On this episode of ID the Future, we hear biologist and Center for Science and Culture senior fellow Ann Gauger speaking at a gathering to honor the recently deceased Dr. Phillip Johnson, the Berkeley law professor known affectionately as the “godfather” of the intelligent design movement.

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Ann Gauger

Date
October 30, 2019

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__edited, Adam and Eve, BIO-Complexity, common descent, DNA, Evolution, first human couple, genes, genetic diversity, genetics, human origins, models of evolution, population genetics, single-couple human origin, theistic evolution}

New Gene Research: A Single-Couple Human Origin is Possible

_{Ann Gauger

October 30, 2019}

On this episode of ID the Future, biologist Ann Gauger talks with host Andrew McDiarmid about new research challenging the common claim that the field of population genetics rules out a single-couple human origin. She and Stockholm University statistical mathematician Ola Hössjer have just published a paper in the journal BIO-Complexity modeling the scenario using a newly developed computer algorithm. The results, Gauger says, show that the genetic data does not rule out Adam and Eve.

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
October 25, 2019

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__edited, ATP, causal circularity, cell metabolism, co-factors, Darwinism, DNA, Evolution, evolutionary theory, gradualism, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, NAD, Neo-Darwinism, Proteins, scientific paradigm}

Ann Gauger on Emerging Clues to Life’s Design

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October 25, 2019}

On this episode of ID the Future, Andrew McDiarmid shares biologist Ann Gauger’s recent article on emerging clues to life’s design, and how the “Darwinian Regime” tends to ignore them. One stubborn bit of biological evidence Gauger highlights is the fact that cells can’t make life-essential ATP, NAD, and other metabolic co-factors without having ATP, NAD, and the other co-factors there first. It’s a “daisy chain of causal circularity woven by what must be an intelligent designer,” Gauger comments. Or as she also puts it, “It’s chickens and eggs, all the way down.”

Stained glass ceiling of Palace of Catalan Music

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
January 28, 2019

Categorized
Ethics

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__edited, art, beauty, Ethics, goodness, Materialism, truth}

Why Scientific Materialism is No Match for Truth, Beauty, and Goodness

_{Ann Gauger

January 28, 2019

Ethics}

On this episode of ID the Future, David Klinghoffer speaks with Dr. Ann Gauger, biologist and Director of Science Communication for Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, about her recent article “The Transcendental Treasury of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness” at EvolutionNews.org. These abstract concepts don’t derive from the material world, yet we feel impoverished without them; they’re foundations of a life worth living. Materialistic evolutionary explanations for truth, beauty, and goodness fall flat. Some of them even reduce them to mere illusion. It takes a designer who knows truth, beauty, and goodness to explain what we all know: They’re really real.

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
July 18, 2018

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__edited, Denis Lamoureux, faith, front-loaded design, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution, Theology}

Ann Gauger Defends a New Anthology Critiquing Theistic Evolution

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July 18, 2018}

On this episode of ID the Future, biologist Ann Gauger responds to a negative review of the new Crossway anthology Theistic Evolution: A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique, arguing that parts of the review are confused and contradictory. For instance, Denis Lamoureux uses classic design language while denying design. He says design is all front-loaded so that random evolutionary processes can produce designed outcomes, thus changing the meaning of both “random” and “evolution.” He accuses ID of being theologically driven, apparently unaware that it’s theistic evolution that is theological. And he seeks to support faith through appreciation of the wonders of nature while insisting that appeals to evidence of design in nature somehow undermine faith.

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
January 24, 2018

Categorized
Human Origins

Tagged
__edited, DNA, human evolution, population genetics, theistic evolution}

New Book Refuting Theistic Evolution Puts Ape-to-Man Under the Microscope: Pt. 2

_{Ann Gauger

January 24, 2018

Human Origins}

On this episode of ID The Future, we continue a series on human origins with biologist Ann Gauger, CSC Director of Science Communications. Gauger centers her discussion around a big new anthology from Crossway Books that she contributed to and helped edit, Theistic Evolution: A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique. Today’s episode delves into chimp and human DNA. Really, how similar are our genomes? Do protein-coding stretches of DNA tell the whole story? And is there enough time for genetic mutations to build the novelties that separate humans all other primates?

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Ann Gauger

Date
January 17, 2018

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__edited, theistic evolution}

A New Book Refuting Theistic Evolution Puts Ape-to-Man Under the Microscope: Pt. 1

_{Ann Gauger

January 17, 2018}

On this episode of ID The Future, we begin a series on human origins with biologist Ann Gauger, CSC Director of Science Communications. Gauger centers her discussion around a big new anthology from Crossway Books that she contributed to and helped edit, Theistic Evolution: A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique. Among the tenets of theistic evolution is the idea that humans evolved from a large population of ape-like creatures. But is that idea scientifically plausible? Today’s episode delves into the fossil evidence. Listen in as Gauger describes not a mere gap in the fossil record but a great gulf, between australopithecines (an ancient ape-like creature) and humans.

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
December 4, 2017

Categorized
Culture, Faith and Science

Tagged
__edited, Book, Doug Axe, Günter Bechly, J.P. Moreland, James M. Tour, John G. West, Paul A. Nelson, Stephen C. Meyer, synthetic chemistry, theistic evolution}

An Overview of Theistic Evolution: A Scientific, Philosophical and Theological Critique

_{Ann Gauger

December 4, 2017

Culture, Faith and Science}

On this episode of ID The Future, biologist Ann Gauger, CSC Director of Science Communications, discusses a big new anthology she contributed to and helped edit, Theistic Evolution. Gauger discusses the reception that the new book recently received at the Evangelical Theological Society meeting, and gives an overview of the book. In her conversation with host Sarah Chaffee, the two home in on the anthology’s contribution from leading chemist James Tour and the problems that synthetic chemistry pose for modern evolutionary theory. Gauger also summarizes a nano-tech breakthrough Tour’s research team has made in cancer research.

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
March 13, 2017

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Gauger: Is It Easy to Get A New Protein?

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March 13, 2017}

On this episode of ID the Future, Ann Gauger discusses a central argument used by evolutionary biologists to say it’s simple to get new proteins. Listen in to learn more about nylonase, and whether it shows that purely natural processes can produce biological information.